Advertising device



Sept .1, 1925,

J. A. MOORE ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed Dec. 24, 1923 Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

v UNITED STATES:

PATEVN 1 OFFICE.

aosnrn A. MOORE, or PITTSB R H; PENNSYLVANIA.

ADVERT SING twice.

Application filed December 24, 1927s. Serial m5. 682,486.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, J OSEPH 'A. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improvementsfin Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is for an advertising de-,

. vide an anti-friction support for the rotating member and utilizing such antifriction means to transmit current from the stationary part to the rotating part, whereby the friction of the usual commutator is eliminated, enabling the rotating part to be easily r0- tatecl, so that it may be arranged to be rotated from a current of air from a fan or other relatively feeble driving means.

The invention may be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the assembled device;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the device, with the advertising means removed;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a similar section of a slight modification, wherein the parts are vertically arranged, the rotatable part above the support; and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4;, showing the rotating device below or suspended from the support.

In the drawings, 5 designates a suitably shaped supporting structure of wood or other insulating material having an extension 6 thereon, which is shouldered at 7, the extension preferably being tapered, as indicated at 8, between the body and the shoulder 7 Passing concentrically through the body and the extension, is a metal shaft 9 having a nut 10 threaded on its inner end,

and having its outer end the beyond the,

extensiomalso threaded. p Mounted on the extension. are two sets of ballbear'ings 11, and 12; one set, 11, being adj acent shoulder 7, and the other set being positioned at the free end of the extension. These b arin s Garryav hub 13 of wood or other insulating material. A metal connecting plug 14; on the hub' 'contacts'with' bearing 11 and provides a wire attaching means for one pole ofan electric circuit, while a similar connector ;15 contacts with bearing12."' V The stationary part of bearing 11 contacts with a: metal ferrule .16 incircuitjwith connector 18 on the support; The stationary part of bearing 12 is electrically connected with shaft 9 through-a washer 19, held thereagainstby nut 20, this nut also serving, in conjunction with nut 10, to hold shaft 9 in place. Shaft 9 is connected through conductor 21 with binding post 22. Posts 18 and 22 may be connected with a suitable source of power, and current can be transmitted to electric appliances, such as lamps on the hub.

On the hub, I have shown a plurality of arms 23, on the outer ends of which are electric lamps 24 in circuit with connectors 18 and 22 through wires 21 The shaft 9, projecting a considerable distance beyond the end of the extension, carries a stationary or other exhibit, around which the lights 24 may revolve. In this way, a stationary centerexhibit, without any obstruction at the front thereof and about which the lights revolve, is obtained. Various changes in the particular form of advertising exhibits may be made, those shown being merely illustr'a freely in a vertical position, with the supporting member below it.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the

general arrangement is again similar, but a thrust bearing 12 has been substituted for the bearing 12, enabling the hub to freely revolve when suspended in avertical position from the support.

Various details of construction and various changes may be made in the construction shown withinthe contemplation of my invention, and urfder the SCOQPBiGlf thefepperrded claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device ofithesehemantercdescnihed,.

a supporting member, a shaft projecting from the supporting member, a non"hon illctingsleeve through which the shaft extends, a pair of spaced apart' ball bearings onthe sleeve, a hub carried on the bearings, el -display member 'onthe hub extending mdially therefrom, .one of said"bearings beingj'oined with aconnectornndthe other he atrin g being connected to a seeondconn'ecter 'whereb y seifd bearings may "be connected with reppesite "poles .ifof an "electric circuit, electric displaymeansontheseiddisplety memb'eriin V circuit "with the respective bettrin'gs, and a display {device :on fthe end of "said shift in front rofth'ehu'b, I

" 2; "in 2, device ref the character described, a supporting member of"insul'zitingunateriel, a hollow extension thereon, a, shaft e'Xt'endin g "through the "extension and :support and having its forward '"end 'pTfdjedtiIIg beyond a supporting member, ta fixed 'fshafbprojecting frolnfthe supporting member, a hub "on the "shaftfan"exhibitor icarriedby the hub,

having electric" lights 'thereonyme ans "for transmitting current from the {stationary support ito the hub, and "a ifixeid disk on the end "of the sha ft' in "front of the rotatable hithfthe lights on th'e exhibitor being position'ed' 'to rotate aboutthe periphery of the stationarydis k; r t V Tntestimon'y whereof '1 min; "my signature. JOSEPH AIMQGRE. 

